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Moby Dick and Asian typhoons
By Saul Landau
“Climate change will intensify droughts, floods and other natural disasters. The scarcity of water will affect hundreds of millions of people. Malnutrition is going to…
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Swiftboating health care reform
By Max J. Castro
Whipped up by demagogues, bankrolled by the insurance lobby, the debate over health care reform has brought out all of the nation’s Obama-hating paranoia, resentment…
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The nuclear gang rides again
By Saul Landau
A group of scientists, military officials and government bureaucrats signed an informal pact with the devil. The contract became public in August 1945, when U.S. bombers…
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Making war to bring ‘peace’
By Noam Chomsky
From In These Times
A debate is under way at the United Nations over a policy that may seem uncontroversial: an international framework to prevent severe crimes…
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Is this the end for Lou Dobbs?
By Bill Press
It took him a long time, but it looks like CNN President Jon Klein will finally get around to doing what he should have done a long time ago. In order to maintain the…
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The tea baggers are back — crazy as ever
By Bill Press
Ah, democracy! It never works better than when informed citizens gather in town hall meetings to discuss and debate the issues of the day.
But, oh, democracy! It's never…
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Sotomayor, race and the legacy of José Martí
By Oscar Montero
"Affinity of character is more powerful than affinity of color." -- José Martí In recent weeks it seems as if the dreaded race card has become the race billboard.…
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Time is right for opening to Cuba
By Mary Mulhern
From the St. Petersburg Times
My recent visit to Cuba with Tampa Port Authority Commissioner Carl Lindell, former U.S. Senate Secretary Joe Stewart and a group of…
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The shrinking Republican Party
By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com
A few years ago Grover Norquist, one of the gurus of the right-wing intelligentsia in Washington, once remarked he hoped to be able to shrink the…
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Health care and the seeds of disunity
By Saul Landau
President Obama has a rough task promoting health care that will provide coverage for most Americans and reduce the cost of this basic service so that it doesn’t bankrupt…
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